Some Important Information About Netherlands Entrepreneur Visa

by Priska Prasetya Shape Of Green Business

If you want to reside in the Netherlands and kick off your own business, work as a freelancer or practice a profession, it is necessary for you to apply for a Dutch residence permit as an entrepreneur. Specific conditions are applied to each situation, which are delineated in this guide.

Some latest details about self-employed visa Netherlands

· The necessities to work as self-employed in the Netherlands can be severe if you are a foreign national. To evade discouraging new businesses, the Dutch government brought the ‘Startup Visa’, operative as of January 2015, that enables new businesses an introductory year to ready the requirements for meeting the requirements of the Dutch self-employment permit.

Additional changes were brought to the Startup Visa in 2016, when the Dutch authorities understood that after the initial start-up year various enterprises were still not able to clear the laborious inspection of the standard self-employed application. Up till January 2016, startups may bring a favorable recommendation from their business organizer that will substitute the points-based system.

· The prices for self-employment permits were augmented in January 2017.

A number of rules apply for peoples from the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA – EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and Switzerland – and their family members looking to get Netherlands entrepreneur visa.

If you’re arriving to NL to work as a self-employed person or to define your own business in the Netherlands, there are various conditions that need to be met to seek approval for your Dutch permit, most particularly showing that your business activities exhibit a necessary Dutch interest using a point-based system.

The points-based application review is cumbersome; a well-defined business plan with vigorous financial projections is a must and your application portion must be carefully assembled. You must score at least 90 out of 300 points, of which you must attain a minimum of 30 points in each category. Only in very limited cases will an excellent score in one category recompense for an unacceptable score in a different category.